Quotes About Compassion

I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

If no one else has ever told you this before, I will tell it to you one more time and hope you believe it and never forget it for the rest of your life: You deserve to be treated well.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

The point of life is happiness.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

What you get is a living-what you give is a life.

Imagine that it's not about the self and its concerns, about 'what's in it for me,' whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

I am no martyr upon cross, but I would gladly give my life so that those more deserving may live.

When you serve others, when you make somebody else's life better, when you lift up people, when you help heal those that are hurting, not only are they being blessed, but you're being blessed.

I want to make someone's life better because I'm here. If you have that attitude it will change your day and change your life.

Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.

To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.